Unit+2+Colonial+Literature

=//Beginnings: The Journey of Coming Together in America//=

Colonial Unit Literature Essential Questions

 * ==== Collection of writings from Native American Literature and Colonial Literature [Native American Lit,Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, William Byrd, Jonathan Edwards, Mary Rowlandson, Oloudah Equiano) ====
 * How is the theme of resolving conflict and the difference between diverse people a reoccurring theme in society? In America?
 * How should we approach people who look, live, and think differently from us?
 * Why were people divided on the earth and spread all over the lands?
 * What are primary and secondary causes of division among people and How do we best resolve division?
 * Why did and does God allow division among His created people?
 * How is literature culturally positioned in the new America?
 * Why and how does the way people think about humanity, God, who they are, etc. change over time? (worldview)
 * How did America’s beginnings culminate in the self-made man and the American Dream?




 * ====**The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin dealing with Rationalism, the Self-made Man and the invention of the American**====
 * What is rationalism?
 * How did the way people approached life and questions about their world change?
 * How did Benjamin Franklin develop the concept of the self-made man?[[image:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ben_franklin.jpg align="right"]]
 * What was the concept of the American dream at during this time period and how was it developed?




 * ====** Honors: Essential Questions for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne **====
 * Why did Nathaniel Hawthorne write The Scarlet Letter?
 * [[image:http://net.archbold.k12.oh.us/ahs/web_class/Fall_10/ScarletLetter_storrer/images/plot2.jpg width="304" height="321" align="right" caption="plot pic2"]]Why did Nathaniel Hawthorne choose the Puritans as characters and Puritan society as the setting?
 * How does sin affect us and why is there sin and then guilt when we step out of moral bounds described in the Bible such as marriage?
 * Who is the judge of goodness and sin?
 * How effective is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s description and potential solution for the redemption of Dimmesdale? Can man find redemption for sin and absolution of guilt in this way?
 * What does the scarlet letter A come to symbolize?
 * What is Hawthorne’s statement in this novel through the character of Hester Prynne concerning sin and restoration from sin?
 * How relevant and accurate do Miller and Hawthorne portray the personal consequences of the conflict situations presented in their works?
 * What are “larger questions” that are raised in literature and how do we handle those questions?
 * What are reoccurring themes in American Literature and how are they related to our history and growth and development?



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**Review Materials and Resources** **On Level:**




 * Quick 15: Do you know?**
 * The Four Generalizations of Native American Literature?
 * When Jonathan Edwards lived?
 * When Edward Taylor was “discovered”?
 * Who wrote the first slave narrative?
 * Specific comparisons within the texts we studied? Get Specific!!! [check your annotations]
 * How long Mary Rowlandson suffered with her child before the child died?
 * Where Oloudah was taken from and by whom?
 * What place was “in fashion” to travel to before people starting coming to the “new world”?
 * When Native American Literature was recognized by Western scholars?
 * What was a comfort to Mary Rowlandson during her captivity?
 * What was the purpose of Jonathan Edwards’s sermon?
 * What did the Puritans believe about grace?
 * What is being compared in “Huswifery”?
 * What the theme is of “Upon the Burning of My House”? “Huswifery”? “Moral Perfection”?
 * When the tone shift takes place in “Upon the Burning of My House”? “Huswifery”?

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